Columbia Theological Seminary Bulletin: Course Catalog 1933-1934

BULLETIN

Supplementary to the Catalogue of

COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL
SEMINARY

FOR APRIL, 1932

CALENDAR AND SCHEDULE FOR 1933-1934

ELECTION OF DR. CARMICHAEL

DR. McPHEETERS BECOMES PROFESSOR EMERITUS

REVISED LIST OF FACULTY MEMBERS

CHANGES IN THE CURRICULUM

Published Quarterly at
Decatur, Ga.

Volume XXVI May, 1933~ No. 1

Entered as Second Class Matter May 9, 1928, at the Postoffice at Decatur, Georgia,
Under the Act of August 24, 1912.

SUPPLEMENT TO THE CATALOGUE

In view of the fact that a large number of the catalogues published
last spring are still available and that the basic information con-
tained therein requires little revision, it has been thought unneces-
sary to publish a new edition for the coming year. This bulletin is
issued simply to offer such additions and corrections to the informa-
tion previously presented as are necessary, and to make announce-
ments concerning changes in the faculty, the curriculum, and the
schedule for the School Year 1933-1934. Copies of the catalogue
will be mailed upon request.

CALENDAR FOR 1933-1934

Fall Quarter

Thursday, September 14, 11:00 A. M. — Session begins. Chapel Serv-
ices. Address. Matriculation. Announcements.
November 24th-29th — Examinations.
November 30th-December 4th — Thanksgiving recess.

Winter Quarter

Tuesday, December 5th, 8:30 — Class work resumed.
Friday, December 22nd, 1 :00 P. M. — Christmas vacation begins.
Wednesday, January 3rd, 8:30 — Class work resumed.
February 20th-24th — Examinations.

Spring Quarter

Tuesday, February 27th, 8:30 — Class work resumed.

May 8th-12th — Examinations.

Sunday, May 13th — Baccalaureate Sermon and Missionary Address.

Monday, May 14th — Installation of Student Officers.

Tuesday, May 15th, 9:00 A. M.— Meeting of Board of Directors.

1:00 P. M.— Alumni Luncheon.

8:00 P. M. — Inaugural Address by President
Richards.
Wednesday, May 16th, 10:30 A. M. — Graduating exercises.

CONTINGENCY FEE

By action of the Board of Directors, taken at its last meeting, stu-
dents of Columbia Seminary will, in future, be required to pay a
contingency fee of $5.00, which is due with the opening of the
school in September. The proceeds from this fee will be used in pay-
ing for any damage which may occur to seminary property during
the year, and in providing for the various other emergencies which
annually arise, but for which no provision has been made in the
budget.

In view of the large amount of work which the Secretary of the
Faculty is annually called upon to do in furnishing transcripts of
students' records, it has also been decided that in the future it will be
necessary to charge a fee of $1.00 for each transcript which is thus
provided.

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NEW PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH BIBLE AND
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

With the beginning of the Fall Term, Columbia Seminary will wel-
come a new member to its faculty in the person of the Rev. Patrick
H. Carmichael, D.D., Ph.D., Pastor of the Presbyterian Church of

Montevallo, Alabama, who comes
to occupy the Chair of English
Bible and Religious Education at
this institution. Dr. Carmichael
was elected to this Professorship
by the Board of Directors of the
Seminary at its regular meeting on
May 9th, after long and careful
study of the situation had made
him its first choice for the position,
and notice of its action was given
at the Annual Commencement
Exercises on the following day. It
was not until the following week,
however, that definite word of
Dr. Carmichaers acceptance was
received, announcement of his
decision having been made in
both church and secular press
since that time. In coming to
this position, Dr. Carmichael fills
the Chair in the Seminary Facul-
acant by the resignation of Dr. Melton Clark
last year, and brings the teaching force of the institution back to its
normal strength, with all departments of instruction under the di-
rection of permanent and full time instructors.

The new professor is eminently qualified, both by training and
b> experience, to occupy with distinction the important post to
which he has been called. Born at Goodwater, Alabama, he comes
of a family which is known throughout his native State by reason of
the distinguished service which its members have rendered to the
cause of religion and of education, and he has proven himself a
worthy son of that family by the work which he has done in both
of these fields of endeavor. Graduated from Mercer University with
the degree of Bachelor of Pharmacy in 1909, he subsequently enter-
ed the University of Alabama, receiving the degree of Bachelor of
Science from this institution in the class of 1915, after having held
a teaching Fellowship in Chemistry throughout his Senior year. He
received his theological education at Princeton Seminary in New
Jersey where he graduated in 1918, later pursuing graduate work in
Religious Education and earning the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
from New York University in 1931. He also holds the honorary
degree of Doctor of Divinity, this title having been bestowed upon
him in 1930 by Southwestern University of Memphis, Tennessee.

Dr. Carmichael was ordained to the ministry by the Presbytery of
Tuscaloosa in 1918 and has for the fourteen vears since that time

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been engaged in the active work of the pastorate. During the first
two years of this period, he was pastor of the Alabama Avenue and
Valley Creek Presbyterian Churches at Selma, Alabama, but in 1920
he accepted a call to the Montevallo Presbyterian Church, which he
has served continuously since that year. In 1921 he also became Pro-
fessor of Bible and Religious Education in the Alabama College at
Montevallo and he has continued to be a member of the faculty of
that institution as well as pastor of the local Presbyterian Church
until the present time. During these years, he has touched the lives
of hundreds of students at Alabama College, not onlv as a teacher,
but also as student pastor, and in both capacities he has been highly
successful, the quality of his work being evidenced bv the high esteem
in which he is held by his many former students throughout the State
of Alabama. He comes to the Seminary, therefore, not only with a
rich background of experience in the practical problems of the min-
istry, but with the additional qualification of long experience in the
classroom, his preparation being of that twofold nature which it is
so highly important that he should posess, but which is not given to
many men.

Numerous articles from the pen of Dr. Carmichael have appeared
in the religious press of his Church, in the Homiletic Review, and in
various other publications to which he has contributed book reviews.
For the past two years, he has conducted a weekly book review
period over radio station WAPI of Birmingham as a part of the
broadcasting program of Alabama College, and his discussion of
current books on religion during this period has met with a highly
favorable response on the part of a large radio audience. Dr. Car-
michael is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, National Honor Scholar-
ship Fraternity; of the Jasons, Senior honor club of the University
of Alabama; of Pi Gamma Mil, National Honor Social Science So-
ciety; of Kappa Delta Pi and Phi Delta Theta, Education fraternities
of the School of Education, New York University; of Columbiana
Fellowship, membership by invitation of the Biblical Seminary in
New York; of the National Association of Biblical Instructors, and
of the Professors' Professional Advisory Section of the International
Council of Religious Education. His church membership is now in
the Presbytery of Birmingham, within whose bounds he has served
as a minister of the Gospel for more than twelve years.

Dr. Carmichael expects to offer two regular courses during each
Quarter of the coming year, giving a total of four major courses in
Bible and two in Religious Education. He states that it is also his
desire to offer special elective work during the latter part of the
school year, but he is unable to make definite announcement con-
cerning this at present. Dr. Carmichael will remain at his present
post in Montevallo through the month of July, but he plans to spend
the month of August in visiting some of the leading theological insti-
tutions of our country and in securing additional information which
will be of value to him organizing the work of his department. He
expects to move to Decatur with his wife and little daughter about
the first of September and will occupy one of the faculty apartments
located on the campus of the Seminary.

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DR. McPHEETERS BECOMES PROFESSOR EMERITUS

After forty-five years of faithful and useful service as a Professor
at Columbia Seminary, Dr. W. M. McPheeters was. at the last meet-
ing of the Board, retired from active service and elected to the posi-
tion of Professor Emeritus. This
action was taken with a feeling of
sincere regret at the thought that
Dr. McPheeters is no longer to
preside regularly in the classroom
of this institution, but with deep
gratitude for the inspiration and
the instruction which he has given
to his classes through the years
and with the earnest hope that, by
his continued presence on the cam-
pus, he may be a means of bless-
ing to many classes yet to come.

Dr. McPheeters has, for sev-
eral years, been desirous of being
released from the necessity for ac-
tive teaching in order that he
might give his whole time to the
task of placing the results of his
scholarship and teaching in liter-
ary form, but his loyalty to the
Seminary which he has served so
long made him unwilling to re-
tire during a period in which it
was necessary for other Chairs in
the faculty to be vacant. In view
of the fact that these vacancies
have now been filled, a new Presi-
dent having been in office during
the past year, and Dr. Carmichael having recently accepted the Chair
of Bible and Religious Education, it was not felt to be just that
Dr. McPheeters should be called upon for further service, however
willing he might be to render it, and he was, therefore, regretfully
but willingly, released from active duty and elected as Professor
Emeritus with the provision of a modest stipend and of living quar-
ters on the campus for the remainder of his life.

It is not given to many men to labor for forty-five years in any
one field of service, and certainly the institutions which, through
such a length of time, are blessed in having such loyal and devoted
service as that rendered by Dr. McPheeters, are few indeed. In spite
of difficulties and discouragements, his faith has never waivered and
to him must ever go a large share of the credit for the service which
Columbia Seminary has rendered to our Church and which we trust
that it will render in increasing measure for many years yet to come.
His high ideals of scholarship, his utter loyalty to duty, his devotion
to the truth, his self-forgetful and sacrificial service to others in the
name of his Lord have been a source of inspiration and of blessing
to generations of students in this institution, and the influence of his

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life and teaching will be making itself felt throughout our Church
long after he himself has gone to his eternal reward.

At the time that this bulletin goes to the press, our latest informa-
tion is to the effect that the state of Dr. McPheeters5 health is slightly
improved after his recent serious illness, and we are earnestly hoping
that it may be possible for him to return to his apartment on the
campus by the opening of the Fall Term. It is not likely that Dr.
McPheeters will ever again be able to offer formal courses of study.
but his mere presence on the campus would be a contribution of
inestimable value to this institution, and all former students of the
Seminary will join with us in the hope that he may vet be spared to
the Church and to this institution for the writing which he hopes to
do. and for many years of ministry through personal contacts with
his brethren. Dr. McPheeters has. for the past several years, rendered
only part time service to the Seminar}, and the limited number of
courses which he has offered will, therefore, be placed in the hands
of Dr. E. D. Kerr. Professor of Hebrew and Cognate Languages, and
of President Richards.

REVISED LIST OF
FACULTY MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

The Rev. James McDowell Richards, A.B.. A.M.. B.D.. D.D.

President and Professor of Pastoral Theology

A.B.. Davidson College: A.M.. Princeton University; A.B.. A.M.. Oxford Uni-
versity: B.D.. Columbia Seminary: D.D.. Davidson College.

The Rev. William M. McPheeters, A.B.. D.D.. LL.D.

Professor Emeritus of Old Testament Literature and Exegesis,
and Apologetics

A.B.. Washington & Lee University; Graduate of Lnion Theological Seminary

of Virginia: D.D.. Presbyterian College: D.D.. Washington & Lee Lniver-

sity: LL.D.. Davidson College: Graduate Work. University of Chicago.

The Rev. Edgar D. Kerr, A.B.. B.D.. D.D.

Professor of Old Testament Language. Literature, and Exegesis

A.B.. Davidson College: B.D.. Columbia Theological Seminary: B.D.. Princeton

Theological Seminary: D.D.. Presbyterian College: Graduate

Work. University of Chicago.

The Rev. James B. Green. A.B.. D.D.

Professor of Systematic Theology. Christian Ethics and Homiletics

Peabody Normal College: A.B.. University of Nashville: Graduate of lnion
Theological Seminary of Virginia: D.D.. Presbyterian College.

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The Rev. Wm.Childs Robinson, A.B., A.M.,B.D.,Th.M.,Th.D.,D.D.

Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Church Polity and Missions

A.B., Roanoke College; A.M.. University of South Carolina; B.D., Columbia

Theological Seminary; Th.M.. Princeton Theological Seminary;

Th.D., Harvard University; D.D., Roanoke College.

The Rev. Samuel A. Cartledge, A.B., A.M., B.D., Ph.D.

Professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis

A.B., University of Ceorgia; A.M., University of Georgia; B.D., Columbia
Theological Seminary; Ph.D., University of Chicago.

The Rev. Patrick H. Carmichael, B.S., Ph.D., D.D.

Professor of English Bible and Religious Education

B.S., University of Alabama; Graduate of Princeton Seminary, Ph.D., New
York University; D.D., Southwestern University.

The Rev. Henry W. McLaughlin, A.B., D.D.
Instructor in Country Church Work

A.B., Hampden-Sydney College; Union Theological Seminary of Virginia;
Louisville Presbyterian Seminary.

The Rev. Jos. H. Cudlipp, A.B., B.D.

Instructor in Religious Education and Theory of Worship

College and Seminary of Reformed Episcopal Church.

Mr. G. Allen Fleece, A.B.

Instructor in Introductory Greek

A.B., Washington & Lee University; Columbia Theological Seminary.

James K. Fancher, A.B., M.D.

Medical Adviser

A.B., College of Montana; M.D., Emory University School of Medicine; Faculty

Emory University School of Medicine; Staff Piedmont

Hospital and Good Samaritan Clinic.

Mrs. Samuel A. Cartledge
Director of Music

Samuel A. Cartledge, Clerk of the Faculty

Wm. C. Robinson, Librarian

Miss C. Virginia Harrison, Bursar

Mrs. Edna M. Phinizy, Matron

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CHANGES IN THE CURRICULUM

A new outline of courses has been adopted, to go into effect in the year
1933-34. Some of the main features of the new plan of study are as follows:

The required work in New Testament is begun in the Junior year instead
of the Middle. Students who have had Greek in college do not have an extra
year then, in which to grow rusty. Students who have not had Greek in college
take an introductory course in Greek during their Junior year and take their
New Testament work during the Middle year. No Junior need take more than
three courses; students who have to take extra courses in place of the non-
credit introductory Greek, can take them in their Middle or Senior years, when
they have become more thoroughly oriented to the work of the Seminary.

The work in Hebrew is done in the Middle year instead of the Junior. No stu-
dent is required to begin the study of both Hebrew and Greek in the same year.

The required courses in Old Testament come in the Senior year, following
the Hebrew courses.

The courses in Pastoral Theology and Religious Education have been en-
larged and made required work for the Junior year. A major course in each
is given, so that students will have some measure of preparation before enter-
ing upon their work in the field during the first summer vacation. Elective
courses in Religious Education will be offered during the Middle and Senior
years.

During 1933-34, the Juniors will start on the new schedule as outlined;
the Middlers and Seniors will have to make slight adaptations, as follows: The
Seniors will take Theology, Polity, and an elective during the Fall Quarter;
Theology, Pastoral Theology, and an elective during the Winter Quarter; and
Apologetics, Religious Education, and an elective during the Spring Quarter.
The Middlers will take New Testament, English Bible, and Old Testament dur-
ing the Fall Quarter; New Testament, Theology, and Old Testament during
the Winter Quarter; and New Testament, Theology, and Old Testament during
the Spring Quarter; as Seniors during 1934-35. they will take the same courses
as the Seniors during 1933-34.

CLASS SCHEDULE, 1933-34

Tuesday to
Saturday

Fall Quarter

Winter Quarter

Spring Quarter

8:30

321. New Testament
300a. Greek
*** History

322. New Testament
300b. Greek
*** Relig. Ed.

323. New Testament
328. Apologetics

9:30

712. Homiletics
611. Eng. Bible
*** New Testament

741. Pastoral Theol.

351. New Testament
445. Ethics

10:30

Chapel

Chapel

Chapel

11:00

644. Eng. Bible
221. Old Testament
433. Theology

511. Missions

222. Old Testament

434. Theology

512. History

223. Old Testament

*** Eng. Bible

12:00

534. Polity

421. Theology

*** New Testament

422. Theology
742. Relig. Ed.

Course to be selected from electives offered.

Note: A student who makes at least two B's and one A during a quarter is
lowed to take an additional elective course during the next quarter.

Outline of Courses for the Bachelor of Divinity

Fall Quarter

Winter Quarter

Spring Quarter

Junior
Year

321. New Testament
712. Homiletics
644. Eng. Bible

322. New Testament
741. Pastoral Theol.
511. Missions
112. Hebrew
421. Theology
623. Eng. Bible

323. New Testament
742. Relig. Ed.
512. History

Middle
Year

111. Hebrew

513. History

Elective

113. Hebrew
422. Theology
611. Eng. Bible

Senior
Year

221. Old Testament
534. Polity
433. Theology

222. Old Testament

Elective
434. Theology

223. Old Testament
238. Apologetics
Elective

Note: Students who enter without at least two years of Greek in college must
take Greek 300a and 300b and New Testament 351 in their Junior year. The latter
course gives a credit of one major ; the former ones are non-credit. The regular New
Testament courses, 321, 322, and 323, are then taken in the Middle year. A fourth
major must be taken in each of two quarters at some time during the Middle or
Senior year to complete the 27 majors required for graduation, to compensate for
the two non-credit courses taken in the junior year.

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